Matteo Marongiu Porcu

Matteo Marongiu-Porcu is a Senior Reservoir and Completions Engineer at ResFrac with almost twenty-five years of international experience spanning North America, South America, Europe, and North Africa. Passionate about integrating technical precision with operational strategy to drive performance and mitigate risk, Matteo has built his career developing and deploying advanced solutions to optimize production in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs.

Matteo’s expertise includes completions engineering, hydraulic fracturing, matrix stimulation, reservoir diagnostics, geomechanics, and numerical modeling workflows. Prior to his work at ResFrac, Matteo started his career as a completions and stimulation engineer at ENI E&P and Economides Consultants, and has held technical advisory roles at Schlumberger, Chesapeake Energy, NexTier, and Chevron, with a proven track record across 100+ projects in diverse geological settings.

Matteo held adjunct-faculty appointments at the University of Houston’s Petroleum Engineering Department from 2014 to 2022, where he taught two graduate-level courses on production optimization, reservoir testing, and stimulation.

Matteo holds a PhD in Petroleum Engineering from Texas A&M University, an MS in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Houston, and a five-year diploma in Chemical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.

In his free time, Matteo enjoys watching movies with his wife, open water swimming, riding his motorcycle, collecting vintage comic books, and racing slot cars.